Activities at Mount Tryon Care Home
Our home is always full of life, and we can thank our wonderful Activities Coordinators for this. Dedication to creating a unique and interesting activities programme is what sets us apart from other homes. We always take into consideration that some people would prefer to pursue their own interests, which is why our team strive to incorporative activities that cater to a wide range of tastes and hobbies. Our trips out are always fun and exciting as well, and residents are guaranteed to return with stories to tell their loved ones!
Annmarie Scourfield
Hi, My name is Annmarie and I am the Lead Activities Coordinator here at Mount Tryon Care Home. I am passionate about supporting our residents and supporting them to take part in person centered activities. It is important to me that we are encouraging our residents to do the things they enjoy and build a happy, sociable environment for them.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
Read our brochure
Activities and Events Partnerships
As part of our bespoke life-enrichment programmes, we host a number of live virtual events in the home on a regular basis through a number of partnerships with places of interest and world class performance companies
Life at Mount Tryon Care Home
World Hypertension Day
Because every employee at Mount Tryon is vital, our experienced nurses offered blood pressure checks to staff members as a way to raise awareness of hypertension
World Hypertension Day is a day designated and initiated by The World Hypertension League, which is itself an umbrella to organisations of 85 national hypertension societies and leagues. The day was initiated to increase the awareness of hypertension.
National Truffle Day
Here at Mount Tryon, we created our own truffles in honour of National Truffle Day.
Using a microwave recipe that worked really well, we created dark chocolate and cherry, white chocolate and strawberry, and milk chocolate and caramel. Next, we formed our truffles and covered them with pink sprinkles for our white chocolate truffles and chocolate sprinkles for our dark chocolate truffles.
After that, we packaged them so that we could donate some to the neighbourhood and later give more to the Torquay Fire Station when they come to see us on National Firefighters Day
We were very satisfied with our results.
National Firefighters Day
On this National Firefighters Day, we at Mount Tryon would want to sincerely thank all firefighters for everything that they do.
One of our residents, who worked as a firefighter for a living working his way up to a Divisional Commander, had a very special day because of our local Torquay Fire Station. He was ecstatic to see a fire engine again and to get a tour of the modern equipment on board. He even wore his own cap for the occasion and was thrilled to sit in the fire engine's cab.
The opportunity to see the fire engine and the fantastic crew of firefighters with us today thrilled the remaining residents just as much.
We presented them with our homemade truffles with pride.
Hatching Chicks In our Home
At Mount Tryon, we had the amazing opportunity to hatch our own seven baby chicks this week, which was an amazing experience.
One of our residents was especially happy about the experience because she owned The Brown Egg Farmer farm, which she owned for ten thousand hens. The farm is still in operation today and has been for 67years, she passed it on to her son and grandson. We were fortunate to have two black chicks with a cute yellow patch on their heads hatch out of our seven chicks. She had never held a black chick before, as she always had brown Hens for brown Eggs
Cuddles with our chicks have been enjoyable for all of our residents, and they will continue until Friday, when they will be returned and placed in excellent homes.
It was a wonderful experience, but we shall miss them for sure.
Our own Master Golf Tournament
Since this is the Masters Golf Tournament, we competed well here at Mount Tryon.
Almost everyone tried their hand at hitting a hole in one during our fantastic time, and several of them succeeded.
We will continue to schedule this activity because everyone had a great time and it was a topic of conversation for the remainder of the day
We would like to say a huge thank you to Lady Captain Laura at Torquay Golf club, for loaning us their putters, they bought us so much fun.
We all Enjoy our indoor/outdoor horticulture Activity
We began with indoor horticulture, where our seeds took off and grew so successfully that we had to upgrade to larger seed cells.
Next, we turned our attention outside, where we needed to make some much-needed preparations before planting our future plants.
We are happy to report that a few of our crops: cucumbers, tomatoes, beetroot, spinach, leeks, sprouts, and spring onions, are in the growing stage. Despite the fact that we still have a lot of work ahead of us, we are excited to watch our crops flourish.
